Photo Submitted Left: Jorge Almodovar, Right: Raj Rao Two U of A researchers received a $480,000 National Science Foundation grant to investigate how engineered coatings that imitate the tissue matrixsurroundingcells would affect the behavior of therapeutic human mesenchymal stromal cells, or hMSCs. Jorge Almodovar, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Raj Rao, professor and head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, were awarded the grant from the NSF Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems. The grant will support research to explore how the extracellular matrix mimetic coatings affect the behavior of therapeutic hMSCs
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